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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈkleɪm/
• 韻: -eɪm

動詞

declaim (third-person singular simple present declaims, present participle declaiming, simple past and past participle declaimed)

1. To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.
2. To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
   • 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:

     Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act.

3. To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.

   The students declaim twice a week.

4. (proscribed) To disclaim, disavow.
   • 1835 February 20, “Mr. Adams and the French”, in North River Times:

     He now declaimed having intended any thing disrespectful to the Senate in the expression he had used.

   • 1928 September, “The Cooperation of the Pharmacist and the Wholesale Druggist (advertisement)”, in Druggist's Circular, page 77:

     Unless these conditions are fulfilled we declaim responsibility.

   • 2009, Christopher McKnight Nichols, “The "New" No-Religionists”, in Culture:

     Of course, a small minority has always declaimed any religious affiliation, and some agnostics have been prominent figures in American public life.

   • 2018 July 18, “Ekiti Poll: PDP declaims involvement in votes buying”, in CEOAfrica:

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